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@CompetitionProf What if two competing products are identically priced, but the prices reflect different things, eg in one case greater investment in industrial design and in the other better aftersales service?

🏭Econ take of the day 💲If prices conveyed perfect signals ↩️ ™️ then trademarks would not be needed.

@ipx_xala Thank you very much @ipx_xala it was great meeting you and other colleagues from around the globe at the superb @ATRIP_INT congress in Tokyo!

Congratulations @dijkman_leon , winner of the 2022 ATRIP Essay competition (sponsored by FICPI)

@LawTechGadget @ATRIP_INT @atrip Thank you very much @LawTechGadget :D it was a tremendous honor to present my work to you & others at the amazing @ATRIP_INT congress

⁦⁦@ATRIP_INT⁩ winning prize goes to … @dijkman_leon 🎉🎉🎉 Well done Leon; well deserved! First time at @ATRIP and wins the main price. Amazing!!!

@eLAWnora @hutko Sure, but you pick up legal English fast enough on the job, and NL has excellent (and very intensive) English education in high school. Meanwhile younger people are finding it harder and harder to speak and write correct Dutch, which is still necessary in legal practice.

@hutko I agree - it’s bad for local students too as the work of any commercial lawyer is increasingly in ENG: it’s not enough to speak excellent conversational ENG; what’s needed is also excellent technical/legal ENG.

While I understand the idea behind the policy, this will cost the Netherlands dearly. It is an own goal (boost for the UK), and will surely impact also the makeup of Dutch academia. What do you think?theguardian.com/education/2023…

And to conclude … a picture of all current and past Kats in attendance today: to the next 20 years of The IPKat! 🥂🎉🎈

Do you love IP and would like to contribute by reporting and commenting on recent developments? Do apply to become the next @Ipkat Intern or GuestKat then! 😺💻

Italy is back in the news due to debates over the ECB and bond purchases. Unfortunately, there are again lots of distorted stories and statements around. Here's a data-based summary thread that may help in debunking the claims about a "profligate, reform-lazy Italy". 🧵

Celebrating a new book- Injunctions in Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Flexibility and Tailoring -ed. by @contreraslegals & myself, w stellar group of authors (open access: cambridge.org/core/books/inj…). Expect the book launch & some exciting @LSELaw events in early Spring 23.

Short article with @ByrneHamilton now available online in Nordic Journal of Human Rights. We look at recent references between the African and European HR courts to lay out interlinked future paths. Come for the Borges reference, stay for our soothsaying. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to #EUI #Law alumnus Yussef Al Tamimi for winning this year's #AntonioCassese Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in International Law with his dissertation on "Law, Identity and Emotions: A Sentimentalist Analysis of Human Rights"!

'"Klaar voor de show?"' 31 mei verschijnt @JohnAlexanderJa's derde roman Va-banque (@Arbeiderspers). Donderdag 9 juni om 13.30 signeert Janssen het boek bij Athenaeum Boekhandel Spui. Wees erbij, en lees een fragment!

Hopefully, today's decision (which tells DE courts to disregard settled domestic case law!) will make stays more common in merits proceedings to close the #injunctiongap, as I argue they should in a forthcoming article in @GrurInt!

The decisions seems entirely correct to me: as the ECJ writes, PIs would become devoid of purpose if patentee first needs to survive validity challenge in merits proceedings. But it will put further pressure on infringement courts.

I realize everyone's still processing Tuesday's decision on Art 17 DSM, but today the ECJ handed down another consequential ruling: Germany's PI regime requiring prior confirmation of patent validity by a court is *unallowable* under Enf. Dir.

Dear former students, if you, your friends or family from Ukraine need any help with getting from the Slovak/Ukrainian border or legal advice in Slovakia, just get in touch.

Have you ever thought of how the Soviet Union dealt with patents and technology? @EUI_EU researcher Svitlana Lebedenko discusses inventors' certificates in the Soviet Union and their impact on modern IP in 🇷🇺. Read more 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.100… @EUI_TechCluster

@GamesQuest @Distant_Rabbit Awesome! How about the EU?

Mantis Falls is now fully dispatched for UK backers. The strategic and highly interactive 2-3 player hidden traitor game from @Distant_Rabbit  will soon be in your hands. Are you ready? 🕵️ #mantisfalls #distantrabbitgames #kickstarter #fulfilment

We won!!! De echte kers op de taart na ons eerste jaar Law Hub bij de @AdamLawSchool van de @UvA_Amsterdam - winnaar van de #goudenzandlopers @Sdu met ons vak Justice Entrepreneurship